Tangley Parish covers an area of 4,017 acres (16.26 km2) and has just over 600 residents in three villages, Tangley, Wildhern and Hatherden, and two hamlets, Charlton Down and Little Hatherden. It lies in the northwest corner of Hampshire.

The houses are typical of the different kinds to be found in the area, with the older ones being of flint and brick and chalk cob with thatched or tiled roofs.

A walk through the parish of Tangley takes one through woodland, downland and farmland. The villages are scattered over the chalklands south of the Hampshire Downs, on high land which overlooks the Bourne valley to the north and the remains of Chute Forest to the west. Tangley was the last point for the drovers who walked their sheep over the downs to the Weyhill Fair in October each year. Tangley offered refreshments and lodging to the drovers, and their flocks, in the form of five inns or beer houses, of which two remain – The Fox to the south and The Cricketer’s in the centre of the village.

A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 together with tables listing the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered, along with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.

The three-storey City Museum in Winchester covers the Iron Age and Roman periods, the Middle Ages, and the Victorian period.

Volumes in The Victoria County History Series are available for Hampshire through British History Online. There are three volumes and the county is covered by parishes within the old divisions of "hundreds".

A collection of maps on the A Vision of Britain through Time website illustrating the English county of Hampshire over the period 1832-1932 (the last two are expandible):